By: Ali Lyon

chief reporter Ali Lyon is the chief reporter at City AM, responsible for covering the full gamut of business, finance and wealth news. He has been at City AM full-time since July 2024. Get in touch with tips via email: ali.lyon@cityam.com. Follow Ali on X: @alilyon_94

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Investor demand for gold hits three-year high

April 30, 2025

Record interest from investors and sustained appetite from central banks helped keep demand for gold among the highest its been since the onset of the pandemic at the start of 2025. According to the World Gold Council, the spectre of Donald Trump’s tariffs and continuing geopolitical uncertainty all served to maintain demand for the traditional [...]
Redbird ‘confident’ of tying up Telegraph deal in weeks

April 28, 2025

US private equity shop Redbird Capital is “confident” of getting a deal for the Daily Telegraph newspaper over the line in just a few months, marking the end of the conservative broadsheet’s two-year hiatus without an active owner. A source familiar with the negotiations told City AM that the uncertainty continuing to swirl around the [...]
Exclusive: Goldman Sachs International boss joins non-dom exodus

April 24, 2025

Goldman Sachs’ most senior banker outside America is joining the growing ranks of wealthy foreigners leaving the UK to avoid the government’s crackdown on non-doms, City AM can reveal. Richard Gnodde, the investment banking juggernaut’s vice chairman, is moving to Milan to avoid changes the Chancellor made to the non-dom regime and foreign-held trusts in [...]
British Steel cancels mass redundancy plans

April 22, 2025

Thousands of steel workers have breathed a sigh of relief after the threat of mass redundancies was withdrawn following a government decision to put British Steel into public ownership. China-based Jingye, the Scunthorpe plant’s former owner, said last month it was consulting on up to 2,700 job losses after it rejected a £500m subsidy from [...]
Santander to spin off motor finance division from UK business

April 22, 2025

Santander is poised to spin off its litigation-hit motor finance division as part of a major overhaul of its UK operations. The Spanish lender has sought permission from regulators to separate its car loan business, which is facing a near-£300m payout as part of the ongoing motor finance scandal, from the rest of its British [...]
Tariff talks to dominate IMF-World Bank meetings

April 21, 2025

Finance ministers are poised to use this week’s International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank’s gathering to strike up trade deals with bilateral partners as uncertainty continues to swirl around Donald Trump’s tariff plan. Senior politicians and economic heavyweights are flocking to Washington for the biannual gathering put on by the two global agencies, with [...]
Aston Villa’s non-dom owner quit UK due to ‘Tory incompetence’

April 21, 2025

The non-dom co-owner of Aston Villa football club has blamed the Conservative party’s mismanagement of the economy for his decision to leave the UK earlier this year. Nassef Sawiris, a chemicals magnate who is Egypt’s richest man, became one of the most high profile ultra high net worth individuals to avoid the government’s crackdown on [...]
A Shein-shaped question looms large over London

April 20, 2025

With UK regulators said to have rubber-stamped its application to list in London, Shein’s long-awaited blockbuster IPO is closer than ever. But with questions over its links to forced labour continuing to dog the Chinese-founded firm, and recent turbulence from Trump’s tariffs, Ali Lyon asks, is it losing steam at just the wrong time? On [...]
Business groups attack ‘deeply damaging’ employment reforms

April 16, 2025

The UK’s five largest business groups have warned that the government’s flagship workers’ rights package will be “deeply damaging” to the UK’s growth prospects and will worsen living standards in the UK. In a co-ordinated effort, Britain’s ‘Big Five’ business groups have taken the unusual step of writing to all members of the House of [...]
‘It’s existential’: Unpacking a looming tax scarier than the National Insurance hike

April 13, 2025

For William Fugard, chief executive and co-founder of Gusto Organic, headaches caused by issues beyond his control are an occupational hazard. The terms on which the UK decided to leave the European Union meant that – in 2019 – the cost of exporting a pallet of his firm’s premium soft drinks went from £70 to [...]

Everton owners The Friedkin Group put Merseyside club up for sale

Everton owners The Friedkin Group put Merseyside club up for sale

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